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Exact analysis of miscible dispersion of solute with interphase mass transfer in a poorly conducting couple stress fluid flowing through a rectangular channel bounded by porous layers is considered because of its application in many practical situations. The generalized dispersion model of Sankarasubramanian and Gill is used, which brings into focus the exchange coefficient, the convective coefficient and the dispersion coefficient. The exchange coefficient comes into picture due to the interphase mass transfer and independent of solvent fluid viscosity. It is observed that the convective coefficient increases with an increase in the porous parameter while it decreases with an increase in the couple stress parameter. The dispersion coefficient is plotted against wall reaction parameter for different values of porous parameter and couple stress parameter. It is noted that the dispersion coefficient decreases with an increase in the value of couple stress parameter but increases with porous parameter.

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The flow and heat transfer characteristics of Oberbeck convection of a chiral fluid in the presence of the transverse magnetic field, viscous dissipation and variable viscosity are investigated. The coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations governing the flow and heat transfer characteristics of the problem are solved both analytically and numerically. The analytical solutions are obtained using a regular perturbation and numerical solutions obtained using finite difference method. The solution is valid for small values of Buoyancy parameter N and variable viscosity parameter R 1 . The analytical results are compared with the numerical results and found good agreement. The role of temperature dependent viscosity and viscous dissipation on velocity, temperature, skin friction and the rate of heat transfer are determined. The results are depicted graphically, from these graphs it is noticed that the velocity is parabolic in nature and increases with an increase in magnetochiral number M . Physically this is attributed to the fact that magnetochiral number introduces small scale turbulences. NOMENCLATURE 0 R viscosity variation parameter Re Reynolds number T absolute temperature 1  coefficient of thermal expansion of viscosity 2  coefficient of thermal expansion of density  dielectric constant  chirality coefficient  kinematic viscosity f  viscosity of fluid  magnetic permeability  viscous dissipation  density of fluid e  distribution of electric charge density  transportive properties  non dimensional temperature 0 reference quantity

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